Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins University Dr. Spiegel, a Canadian physician by training, is internationally recognized for his research on responding to humanitarian emergencies, with a focus on refugee crises. Paul is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and Professor of the Practice in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). Before JHSPH, Dr. Spiegel was Deputy Director and Chief of Public Health at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He previously worked as a Medical Epidemiologist in the International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a Medical Coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde in refugee emergencies, as well as a consultant for numerous international organizations. Dr. Spiegel was the first Chair of the Funding Committee for Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (2013-2018). Dr. Spiegel has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles on humanitarian health and migration. He has served as a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission for Migration and Health and the Lancet Commission on Syria. He is currently co-chair of Lancet Migration and co-director of the EQUAL consortium.
Ocean and Ice Scientist, British Antarctic Survey I am a late-career ice/ocean scientist in the Shelf Seas group at BAS, and an honorary professor at the University of Bristol. My research focusses on the physics of polar oceans, sea ice (frozen seawater), and ice sheets (glacial ice). This research is broadly motivated by understanding changes in global ocean circulation and sea-level rise. I primarily study Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is currently losing ice, causing sea-level rise, and this has been caused by changes in ocean melting. My current research focus is to understand why this ice loss is occurring, and how it may change in future.
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Pengfei Song is an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechatronics and Robotics at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University. Pengfei received his B.Eng. degree from Jilin University, China in 2013 and Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Canada in 2018, both in mechanical engineering. Pengfei’s research interests lie primarily in microsystems, which include 1) microfluidic biosensors and platforms and 2) automation and robotics at microscale. Pengfei’s research receives several awards/finalists from major microfluidic and robotic conferences. Pengfei also serves as Associate Editors in IEEE-RAL, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and the Young Editor in Cyborg and Bionic Systems.
Associate professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Philippe M. Frowd is Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on borders and migration, critical security studies and African politics. As part of a multi-faceted research trajectory, he has also come to research and write on issues related to the politics of surveillance and privacy for diverse audiences. His current research focuses on the transnational governance of security, with a particular emphasis on border control and migration management technologies and policies. He is working on two parallel projects. The first focuses on the automation/digitisation of border security in Canada through electronic visas, applications and airport kiosks. The second concerns intervention policy in and around the G5 Sahel and its place in the evolving security architecture of West Africa.
Emeritus Professor in English and Writing, University of Sydney I completed my combined Honours degree in English Literature and Political Science at UNSW, and my PhD in English at the University of Edinburgh. I taught at the University of Hull before coming to Sydney. I have been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh; at Clare Hall, Cambridge University; and at King’s College, London. At various times I have been Chair of the Department of English. I am particularly interested in relationships between literature and cinema, as well as between literature and politics; in periodical culture; in utopias, and in the literary and cinematic representation of surveillance.
Associate Professor in History, University of Adelaide Paul Sendziuk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical and Classical Studies at the University of Adelaide, with expertise in the histories of immigration, labour, disease and public health. He is the author of 'Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS' (UNSW Press, 2003), and co-author of 'A History of South Australia' (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and 'In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia's Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis (UNSW Press, 2021).
